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Tiny Love Stories: ‘My First Spring Without Her’

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Modern Love Tiny Love Stories: ‘My First Spring Without Her’ Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Credit…Brian Rea April 20, 2021 What I Want to Remember I started cleaning our apartment so I could take… Read More: Tiny Love Stories: ‘My First Spring Without Her’ »

Happy thoughts: Why we’re craving good news stories

Think of what the last thing was that you shared on Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp. The chances are it wasn’t about the pandemic dominating the news headlines but rather a heart-warming video you’d seen online, a funny gif, an uplifting story of some act of kindness. Maybe the video of Christy Dignam singing in his… Read More: Happy thoughts: Why we’re craving good news stories »

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Pink Was Wrong. The Name Was Too.’

What I Have Now Things I used to have: A tidy resume. Unfettered relationships. Nice hair. A paycheck. An almost complete disregard for anyone besides myself. A fully intact perineum. Steadfast opinions on child rearing. A self-regulating internal body temperature. A vague disdain for that mother who would “work from home” on Fridays even though… Read More: Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Pink Was Wrong. The Name Was… »

A final HealthNewsReview.org report card from 3,200+ systematic reviews of health care news stories & PR releases

In 2005, as I began building HealthNewsReview.org, I got permission from Dr. David Henry of the Media Doctor Australia project to adopt their news story review criteria. In the ensuing 13 years, no one has ever placed in front of me a solid, specific suggestion for a better set of criteria for reviewing stories about… Read More: A final HealthNewsReview.org report card from 3,200+ systematic reviews of… »